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Yearly Archive: 2015

We’ve been talking a lot about growing food in the City this summer, and when we posted our last video on this topic, we asked you what topics you would like to learn about from our knowledgeable City gardeners. One of the most common comments we heard back was about pest control – seems those...

Growing your own food – it’s provides a sense of accomplishment, connection to nature and feeling of self-sufficiency. If you are like many people living in a city, you might think that growing food is the sole responsibility – and privilege – of farmers, or country dwellers. The truth is, anyone can grow a food...

We’ve been growing orcas at the City of Victoria for the past five years and figure it’s time to share a few tips. In early spring the City of Victoria staff plant over 12,000 seeds in the warmth of the greenhouse. These seedlings are then lovingly added to the mom and baby orca figures. Watch how...

Written by Rob Johns, Emergency Coordinator, Victoria Emergency Management Agency Over a week ago, we awoke to the news that a destructive, magnitude 7.8 earthquake had occurred in Nepal. Since then, we’ve seen images of damaged buildings, rescue workers, and people negatively impacted by the effects of this natural disaster and its aftershocks Here at...

In celebration of Chinese New Year (February 19) and BC Heritage Week (February 16 – 22), the City of Victoria is shining a light on our city’s rich Chinese Canadian heritage. Victoria is nationally recognized as the location of the first and oldest intact Chinatown in Canada. In the 1850s, exacerbated by political...

With hundreds of miles between him and his home, Murray, a lost dog from Victoria BC, wandered near a gas station on Route 66 in Northern California. He snuck himself out the backseat of the family van during a road trip, and when he looked back, the van was gone. His family didn’t notice...